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...once again feeling like the little girl watching her brother have all the fun on the ice. She vowed she would never go to the Olympics again just to watch. Now she is heading for Nagano as not only the American champion but also the overwhelming favorite for the gold...
There's increasing applause for Elvis' brand of skating and not just from the awestruck audience. "I think the men's competition should be judged an athletic event," says 1988 gold medalist Brian Boitano. "When you have so much athletic ability, you don't have time to be artistic, and I don't think you should be expected...
Citius, Altius, Fortius, and they give you the gold: it's the Olympic Way. But figure skating is not there yet, and this makes Nagano tough to handicap. With styles for every judge's taste, the program will include Todd Eldredge, 26, the five-time American champ from Chatham, Mass., who is back on form after suffering shoulder and rib injuries but has yet to land a quad in competition; a pair of elegant young Russians, Ilia Kulik and Alexei Yagudin, exemplars of old-school, glamour-puss skating; and a sleeper. American Michael Weiss, 21, from Fairfax, Va., will hope...
...smooth spot where a speed bump had always been. "So I didn't have to make some real crappy turn like we usually do up there. I carved a fatty," she says with some admiration for the slingshot turn that blew her off the fast track to Olympic gold. "That's when I decided, when I saw where I was going to hit, that the potential for me to blow out both my knees right now is pretty high, so I'd better just blow my left one out again. [The surgeon] can clean it up when he goes...
...look out below. The ponytailed tomboy queen of the downhill is back, running on Picabo Standard Time. A human cannonball at 5 ft. 7 in. and 158 lbs., she recovered from her injury about twice as fast as most people would have. But most people don't have Olympic gold as the top item on their list of unfinished business. Street has lately zoomed close to her world-beating form, posting a fourth-place finish in a World Cup downhill at Cortina, Italy. But her comeback took a scary detour in a downhill last Saturday at Are, Sweden, when...